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“The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk” (2004), by Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Nov 26, 2020
In 2004, Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker published “The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the…
LiteratureReproductive HealthGestationFetal MonitoringFetal Distress
Adib Jatene (1929–2014)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Adib Jatene in Brazil was the first surgeon to successfully perform the arterial switch operation in 1975. The operation corrected a heart condition…
Heart--SurgeryTransposition of Great VesselsCongenital Heart DiseaseAorta--AbnormalitiesPulmonary artery--Abnormalities
Walter Edward Dandy (1886-1946)
By: Alexandra Bohnenberger
| Published: Mar 02, 2017
Walter Edward Dandy studied abnormalities in the developing human brain in the United States in the twentieth century. He collaborated with…
HydrocephalusBrain--Ventricles--RadiographyVentriculography, CerebralDandy-Walker SyndromeDandy-Walker Malformation
Julia Barlow Platt (1857-1935)
By: Karina Ramirez
| Published: Jun 27, 2016
Julia Barlow Platt studied neural crests in animal embryos and became involved in politics in the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…
DogfishNeural CrestNervous SystemCartilageGerm Layers
John Craig Venter (1946- )
By: Tito Carvalho
| Published: May 06, 2014
John Craig Venter helped map the genomes of humans, fruitflies, and other organisms in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and he helped…
Nucleotide sequenceVenter, J. CraigCelera GenomicsExpressed Sequence TagsHaemophilus influenzae
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926)
By: James Walter Dennert
| Published: May 07, 2021
Emil Kraepelin was a physician who studied people with mental illness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in modern-day Germany.…
Comparative psychiatryMental illnessMental DisordersDual diagnosisMental illness--Bibliography
“All-fours Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During Labor” (1999), by Joseph P. Bruner, Susan B. Drummond, Anna L. Meenan, and Ina May Gaskin
By: Megan O'Reilly
| Published: Sep 28, 2020
In 1999, Joseph Bruner, Susan B. Drummond, Anna L. Meenan, and Ina May Gaskin published, “All-fours Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During…
LiteratureShoulder DystociaMidwiferyBirth InjuriesBirth injuries--Complications
Copper Intrauterine Device (IUD)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jul 05, 2018
The copper intrauterine device, or IUD, is a long-term, reversible contraceptive first introduced by Howard Tatum and Jamie Zipper in 1967. Health…
ContraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Levonorgestrel intrauterine contraceptivesNorgestrel
Mammography
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Mar 25, 2018
Mammography or mastography is an imaging technology used in the twentieth century for the detection of breast cancer and other breast abnormalities.…
TechnologyTomosynthesisBreast--RadiographyMammographyBreast--Cancer--Imaging--Congresses
CRISPR Acquired Resistance Against Viruses (2007)
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Nov 15, 2017
In 2007, Philippe Horvath and his colleagues explained how bacteria protect themselves against viruses at Danisco, a Danish food company, in Dangé-…
gene editingStreptococcus thermophilusvirusesBacteriaRNA